Reviews about interesting gadgets, gear, mobile technology and lifestyle products.
Ever wish you could easily hotsync your PalmPilot with the cradle while it is still in a case? Well, thanks to a new product called The Bridge, you can. The Bridge is a cradle extender made by Midwest PCB Designs and available for purchase at PalmPilotGear H.Q. The idea was created by Don Damiani who […]
Devian Enterprises offers another great black leather case for the PalmPilot or PalmIII, the DVP7. This case is one of the best ones that I have used to date. It is as compact as possible, yet protects almost all of the PalmPilot/Palm III. It has an easy to use snap that keeps the cover secured.
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One of the latest products to come from PDA Panache is a replacement stylus for the Casio E10 (or E11) Palm size PC. This stylus comes in two variations. A black chrome and a silver chrome model.Like all the other styli that PDA Panache carries, they include a screen safe bright orange tip. This
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What is one feature that we love most about Palm OS PDAs? Customization! If there is a feature we don’t like about the Pilot, then chances are someone has written a program that fixes what we don’t like. Third party application launcher programs are one such feature that has fixed what we don’t like about
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Program Requirements: Desktop: 486 or Pentium with 8meg of RAM running Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 (NT users require docking station) 15mb free disk space Franklin has released their next generation REX device. This new version is called the REX Pro. What’s different in this new version? The REX Pro now has a data
Program Requirements: Device: Compatible with SH3 and MIPS Palm size PCs. Needs 74k of RAM. SockOut by Field Software is a Breakout style game for your Palm size PC. You use your stylus to control a paddle at the bottom of the screen which keeps the ball in play. The object of the game is
Hello, my name is Julie Strietelmeier, and I am a couch potato. There, I’ve said it…whew… I feel better. Yes, it’s true, I like nothing better than sitting home on the weekend watching movies and tv shows that I’ve taped during the week while being at work. When the mini satellite dishes came out, I
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What makes the Palm OS PDAs so great is that virtually everything about them software-wise can be modified via 3rd party add-ons, or replacements. The T9 keyboard by Tegic Communications is one such program. The T9 keyboard replaces the built in QWERTY style keyboard. The T9 (which stands for “Text on 9 keys”) product isn’t
The WinCam.Live Internet Camera System by StarDot Technologies is a fully automated webcam. This isn’t one of those little webcams that you use to do video chat through Microsoft NetMeeting or other such programs. WinCam.Live is more suited although not limited to surveillance type work. This product can be easily configured to take a picture
The Fitaly Keyboard by Textware Solutions is an alternative keyboard for entering data into the PalmPilot or Palm III. The name “Fitaly” is derived from the center row of keys as shown below. Before I go any further, I have to stress that everyone’s typing and graffiti writing abilities are different. So whether you
The PC Remote by Concept UK is a nifty infrared gadget that will learn almost any command from any IR device. First a little background: I’ve always had the dream of controlling my VCR and DSS satellite system via my computer. I hated manually setting up my VCR to tape shows. I would constantly screw
Are you a couch potato? Love movies and TV? If so, welcome to the club! I am a big movie and TV fan and own a DSS satellite system. With all those channels, I sometimes miss shows that I didn’t know were on. I don’t really like paper TV guides because they aren’t easy to
Jot by CIC is a handwriting recognition package for Palm OS PDAs. It’s really more of a character recognition package though as you still can only input one character at a time. You can not input a string of connected characters like on a Newton device for example. The program can run on any Palm
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My J-E10MA Modem for the Casio E-10 arrived all the way from Japan (thanks go to T. Horishita). The J-E10MA is a 19.2k data V.32bis MNP, 14.4k fax compact modem adapter for the Casio E-10 Palm size PC. It’s actually just an RJ11 connector for the modem with an AC power jack… as the actual
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If you are in the market for a sturdy method of mounting your PalmPilot or PalmIII, Revolve Design just might have the solution you are looking for: UniMount. They offer a complete line of mounting kits and accessories that will enable you to mount your PalmPilot just about anywhere. There are basically 5 mounting kits,
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